The Battle of Ideas- no 1 The Rise of Gerry Healy

Whilst Red Weekly would often carry full page articles, double page spreads and four page supplements, there was a feeling that more space was needed to develop theoretical issues in depth.

So, from October 1976 the monthly Red Weekly supplement Battle of Ideas ran for six issues as a four page insert.

The content of these supplements was wide-ranging and included an historical look at the politics of Gerry Healy and the Workers Revolutionary Party (no1) presented below, a polemic with Marxism Today on proletarian revolution and bourgeois democracy (no3), the rise of Scottish nationalism (no5) and revolutionary electoral strategy (no6).

In the signs that bewilder the middle class, the aristocracy and the poor prophets of regression, we do recognise our brave friend, Robin Goodfellow, the old mole that can work in the earth so fast, that worthy pioneer — the Revolution.
Karl Marx